"Modes of dressing the hair practised by the inhabitants of New Guinea."  From The Peoples of the World by Robert Brown (1890).

Here's a precursor to the Bride of Frankenstein.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1924.

From Punch Magazine (1898).

From Le Journal Amusant, 1908.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click for a more theatrical look. From Judge's Library, 1894.

From Judge's Library, 1895.

Today's umbrella hair is courtesy of The Judge, 1893.

Lice are doing loop-the-loops.  From Lustige Blätter, 1903.

Reblog if this is your "just out of bed" look.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1896.

From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1875.

"A seated woman with her hair dressed in an enormously high chignon." Coloured line block by Robé, c. 1909.

"A man building a wig on to the head of a woman on a kind of scaffolding while another woman wearing a tall wig looks on."  Coloured etching by Maximilien Rapine, 18th century.

"A woman with her hair dressed in an enormously high chignon looking at herself in a full-length mirror."  Coloured line block by Robé, c. 1909.

From Social Dynamite or The Wickedness of Modern Society from the Discources of T. De Witt Talmage, 1887.

Here's a precursor to Princess Leia of the Star Wars universe, from Preadamites by Alexander Winchell, 1880.

"Head gear prevents most soft tissue injuries to the face but is not as protective to the brain as many believe."
—Steven J. Karageanes